If you havent figured out that full autonomy doesnt work unless the whole system is autonomous then I dont know what to tell you.

You tell me, I lost that debate a long time ago. 

Here we are arguing over the legitimacy of a company who provides a way for people who want to drive to earn money doing it without significant barriers of entry all the while there is a huge push for autonomous vehicles and yet we praise it. We being the Jalopnik community and staff.

But I replace my phone every three years and at thats is putting up with its shit for a year. So the life of my phone is typically 2 years before bugs arise.

Your solution is what then? Car manufactures sell cars to buyers. Buyers dont care if the screens last 45 years or 10 years. That is an issue for the second/third/fourth buyer. The manufacturer doesnt sell cars to the second/third/fourth buyer. It could care less how they feel about the screens.

Why? Are consumers asking for this? I have only met a handful of people who are “pro-touchscreen” in automobiles. Now I know a lot of internet Tesla fan out there that will defend the touch screen in their vehicles until they die....but is it actually better to use? Is it ACTUALLY going to save the consumer money or…

The buyers of new vehicles dont keep them past the warranty period. It literally makes zero difference if cars are capable of lasting more than 5 years. Sad, but completely true. Even “keeper” vehicles like the Land Cruiser are really only taxed with about 10 years of single owner life. And these screens will take 10…

Are you president of my fan club?

Automakers spead out R&D costs across all makes and model. It is the same corporation after all grabbing from the same funds bin. You would be an idiot to think less. 

Those arent curves. With all those creases and lines it looks like origami.

Sorry but your opinion is wrong. 

Man that car is ugly. I honestly dont know how anyone can say it is attractive....but yet everything I read about it across multiple publications say how beautiful and stylish the design is....and I just cant understand.

Wrong. Customers drive the decisions of a profitable and sustainable business.

Laughing at your idea the world needs to be a binary place. EVs are the future. The timeline of the future is uncertain. Uncertainty is not good for an established automaker. Uncertainty can be good for a budding automaker.

Sounds like you already do, just with a more calcium rich frame. 

And Ford sells more trucks in a month than Tesla sells (across all models) in a quarter. Tesla is small. Once EV manufacturing is financially manageable, I have no doubt other manufacturers will follow.

I think it has to do with the fact that those other brands arent proped up with bogus evaluation. The sales and profits prop them up. And since they are in the business of making money on their sales, they are more worried about producing a product today that will sell. They can produce F150s for cheap. Investing in…

I for one am very happy they are doing this and I hope it catches on. If you are not financially invested in Lyft then this should be great news. Services like this that “disrupt” can have negative consequences to the economy in the near term but help make the world a more efficient place (because if you about to be…

“teach”

Wrong. They are a platform. Use of that platform has a variable cost to the user (driver). Customers interact with the platform that finds them users (drivers). Again, they fully disclose that they operate with a variable cost model.